Following our cycle of diplomatic conferences, we met with Rafael Soriano, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Spanish Embassy in Ireland. Between aid, trade and diplomacy, flashback on a diplomatic experience at the head of the Spanish aid agency in Latin America.

On December 12th, 2013, after long weeks of discussion, the Catalan government finally decided on the particularities of the referendum on independence, which is set to take place on the 9th of November 2014.

Shaken by multiple, somewhat violent manifestations, the people of Southeast Asia are urging for democracy. It is therefore not hard to fathom a popular uprising. Here is an analysis of the situation at-hand.

It looks like protest and violence are the only languages Ukrainian officials are able to understand. Parliament has eventually heard the protesters’ demands. Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov has resigned therefore triggering the resignation of all members of the Cabinet. A package of controversial laws passed by the Parliament on January 16th was cancelled by the same Parliament 12 days after. The voting showed a remarkable result with 361 out of the 450 members of Parliament who voted in favour...

On Wednesday 15, the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence issued an investigation report that concluded that the September 2012 Benghazi attack – which murdered four Americans including Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens – could have been prevented if the security had been strengthened.

Almost ten years after the Orange Revolution, which took place in Maydan in 2004, Ukrainians gathered again in the main square of Kiev to protest against the government’s policy. They are demanding the resignation of President Victor Yanukovich, of the Parliament and of Vitaly Zacharchenko, Minister of Interior Affairs. This new Maydan took place in November of last year, a few days before the European Union’s summit in Vilnius (Lithuania) where the Association agreement between Ukraine and...

Joseph “Joe” Patrick Kennedy III, 33 years old, has finally realized the dream of his famous clan: recapture the American Congress. Elected as representative of Massachusetts at the end of 2012, he seems to follow in the footsteps of his brilliant predecessors. But how far can he go? Portrait.

Tashirojima Island was on our visit bucket list. Mainly populated by cats, it is being called “Cat Island” for its 150 cats and kittens, while only 70 people live there as well. The island is overrun by wild cats, mainly fed by fishermen. The cats’ paradise is to be found in Japan. Located in the Pacific Ocean, in the Oshika Peninsula, Tashirojima (田代島) is a very peculiar island. Nowadays considered as “uninhabited”, in 1950 however, the population of this little piece of land reached...

A few weeks ago I met with Liron Milbar the marketing officer of Aardvark, an organisation proposing non-Israelian Jewish teenagers to spend a semester in Israel. From Canaan to Dublin, she nicely accepted to spend some time to explain the role her organisation played in maintaining contact with Jewish communities around the world. Flashbacks on Israeli cultural diplomacy.

"Street photographs” : these words represent your work. What do you particularly like about this place, the street? There are several reasons, why I like the place they call the street. First of all, it's available everywhere and nearly all the time. In a public place you can find always people which are interesting or that act as a part of my photographs. Another reason is that it is completely free, as long as you have a camera. The street is my studio, the pedestrians are my models and the...